Can blogs crash?, I said to myself, as I frantically tried to load my home page to no avail. I had a pesky plugin give a fatal error a few days prior and the dreaded “internal service error” appear, over and over again. Who would have suspected that in the middle of my publicity campaign for my aft ministry Gifts of His Glory, that my blog would crash?
Fortunately, I had a Wordress.com blog supported by Yahoo Small Business and was able to get some tech support. Calling India at midnight, I waited patiently on the phone as they tried to ‘clear up the back end’ and get me rebooted. The dreaded words were spoken to me “I am sorry but you will have to deactivate the blog and start over.” My stomach sank. My heart dropped. Start over? What about all my posts? Each is like a baby to me. And each with a bit of the gospel and love of Jesus in them. Tears came to my eyes as I realized I would lose the story of my art and writing journeys, all documented on my blog.
Lord, I asked. Why have you allowed the enemy to steal my articles? I knew the hand of the Devil was behind this, as he did not want people to read my blog that was raising money for victims of sexual trafficking. I believe he owns the internet and could easily cause the problems behind the crash. In Hebrew, each letter of the alphabet has a numerical value. And www is equal to 666, the number of the Devil. Need I say more?
In my despair I frantically tried to rebuild my blog, as over 200 people where ‘hitting’ my blog that Saturday afternoon. The Lord placed the Scripture “Taste and see that the Lord is good… Blessed is the man who trusts in Him.” on my heart. I fought the good fight and got my blog up and running with the article on my art ministry re-posted. I wasn’t going to let the Enemy win. And he didn’t. I had over 500 blog hits in the three day period I had the guest blog on She is Safe. Loyal Facebook fans to the ministry shared the article and it went completely viral! Think of all the hearts stirred for helping girls and women exploited and abused around the world. Think of all the people now aware of the ministry Gifts of His Glory. Think about all you subscribers to my blog who are reading this now! All to give the Lord the glory due Him.
Two days later, I asked my subscribers to send back any posts they had saved. I received some, alas, only the opening excerpt was included. I realized I would have to rewrite them, but how Lord? “Taste and see that the Lord is good’ kept running through my spirit. O.K. Lord show me your goodness here, please bring back the articles to me somehow.
The next morning I received an email from my writer friend Eric who explained how I could find the articles due to Google’s cache’ feature. In his email he included the post “Bottom on Chair Time” in its entirety! Yes completely there. I cried. I had wanted to republish this article in a publication and now I could! Love and goodness filled my heart. Jesus had done it. After all, He is in the Resurrection business!
When we are going through battles in life, know that God is in control and working behind the scenes. He promises us the victory when we are in Christ Jesus. The Bible states “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us
Will you praise the Lord along with me today, as I celebrate the return of Miriam’s Writing and Art Happenings? I hope you will enjoy my posts and learn more about the Lord’s love for you.
Taste and See that the Lord is Good...Psalm 34:8
You can view my biblical Scripture art by clicking on the ‘my art’ or on tab above. Recently I completed a painting entitled: “Flower Petals” with Romans 34:8 inscribed on it. Please consider a purchase, 50% of each sale goes to help prevent and rescue girls in sexual slavery.
May God bless you today…
